Improvement in iron cutters or sleighs



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Sleigh. No. 34,196. Patented Jan. 21, 1862.

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Sleigh.

'No; 34,196. Y Patented Jan. 21. 1862.

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ALFRED BUROHARD, OF-SYLVAN, MICHIGAN.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 34,196, dated January 21, 1862.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, ALFRED BURCHARD, of the township of Sylvan, in the county of VVashtenaW and State of Michigan, have invented a new and Improved Mode of Constructing a WVrought Iron and Steel Cutter or Sleigh; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Plate I is a side view of the cutter or sleigh without the side braces under the fender. Plate II, Figure l, is the view of a section through F H, Plate I. c c are the side braces; c d, the inside braces; F H, the supports. h and h are the sections of the fenders. K is the cross-beam, scale Plate II, Fig. 2, is an isometrical view of the upper end of a support, together with its connections.

In the beam and braces the same letters are placed 011 the corresponding parts in both the figures.

The nature of my invention is the use of wrought iron and steel combined and connected by means of bolts and nuts in making the running part of a sleigh or cutter.

The cutter or sleigh is constructed in the usual form of those now in use, except that mine is constructed entirely of iron and steel, and the various parts thereof fastened together by bolts, screws, and nuts. The bolts passing through the runners are made larger at the bottom than at the top, so as to pass through the runners in a tapering manner, as also through the braces or supports when they arefastened by nuts,whichbracespassthrough the beam at the rave and also near the center and at the fenders, which are in like manner secured by nuts and screws.

WVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The construction and use of Wrought iron or steel braces, supports, bolts, and nuts, when used and in combination with the running parts of sleighs or cutters made exclusively of wrought iron or steel, in manner and form and for the purposes as herein described.

Dated December 20, 1861.

ALFRED BURCHARD. Witnesses:

LEWIS M. POWELL, WESLEY BURCHARD. 

